I just got done trashing the seamless garment and this come along

Finally a “seamless garment” rational that makes sense

What a great idea, a Catholic Community” within the secular world, this is an idea that is “seamless”, a true shelter in the storm for youth far from home and needing an anchor, a base, guardrails if you will. Now if the Priests leading the Newman Centers are orthodox, katy bar the doors

The planned Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Student Residence at Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Fla., is shown in an artist rendering. The Newman Student Housing Fund is providing the financial assistance needed for the new dormitory, which will house 140 students starting in the fall. (CNS illustration/courtesy Newman Student Housing Fund, LLC)

“We were going to build the Newman Center, but to add the housing — made possible through the Newman Student Housing Fund — it became the seamless garment approach for these young people,” the bishop told CNS. “It’s giving them the opportunity to develop the whole person, not only intellectual, but spiritual development as well. They’re in an environment to support their faith, that protects and nourishes their faith all along.”

With completion expected in August, the building will house 287 students. A 300-seat chapel and a Newman Center also will be built once the students move in.”

I think it’s great, like I said, a shelter from the storm of college life, I just hope it will be staffed with orthodox and faithful Priests. What is not needed is some over the hill 70’s holdover trying to be “relevant”. Preach the faith hard and plain and the kids will follow, wishy washy happy clappy crap will turn them off and fast

It’s a very good thing. Given that 90% of Catholic students attend secular universities, local ordinaries would be wise to take a keen interest in the activities of Newman centers within their dioceses.

what I find interesting is the idea of housing the students as well, a true shelter from the storm so to speak. wonder about confession times, possible adoration? with the students housed in the same facility as the chapel the possibilities are endless. New Evangelisation???

St. Thomas More at Bowling Green State University has a small number of apartments connected to the parish (which now has a pretty solid Catholic identity). I thought there were plans to add more housing, can’t find details though. http://www.sttoms.com/

Joseph Bernardin’s “seamless garment theory” should NEVER be confused with anything else.
This causes confusion.
It did great damage to Saving Souls and put the emphasis on material things.
In his Chicago Diocese and at the USCCB he furthered the teachings of marxist Saul Alinsky. And that sins are equal such as abortion and euthanasia are the same as the government not helping the poor – hence the seamless garment.

guess my hope was a new definition of Seamless garment, I envision creating an environment for students that wraps them in a protective enclave, a garment if you will to shield and protect and nurture a Catholic life at a stage when the forces of evil seem to prowl the hardest, a place away from porn and rampant sex that permeates campus life, grounded in goodness and away from the secular humanism that is preached by many in academia